shlyukha, kurva, shalava

[Christopher R. Putney]

Are we done yet?

Quoting "Paul B. Gallagher" <paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM>:

> Kim Braithwaite wrote:
>
>> A modest addition to slang uses of the word bitch:
>>
>> In situations of hierarchy in some bureaucracy, corporate office, 
>> street gang, or whatever - subject to change when there is jockeying 
>> for power - "bitch" may refer to someone (X) who is subservient to, 
>> under the thumb of someone else (Y). Unless X is by nature a 
>> lickspittle, he/she probably doesn't like it - there is a note of 
>> menace - while Y glories in it. Y might say "You're my bitch," 
>> meaning X has to give in, do as he/she is ordered to, act the slavey 
>> or lackey as it were. If the relationship is not that blatant, and 
>> is even voluntary on X's part, and Y doesn't actually use such a 
>> phrase, the associates of X and Y might snicker among themselves and 
>> refer to X as "Y's bitch." Or, on the other side, X might say 
>> defensively "I'm nobody's bitch!"
>>
>> Clearly this usage is ultimately of misogynistic origin, but I'll 
>> leave it at that. Someone who is fluent in hip-hop/gangsta rap may 
>> have more to say on the matter.
>
> Well, that's not my background, but I understand this usage is also 
> prevalent in prison slang -- a prisoner under the domination of 
> another, especially sexual domination. That may have been the source 
> for the rap usage.
>
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